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Jean-Jacques Grandville

The Relics

c. 1835
pen and brown ink, brown ink wash, heightened with white and red-orange gouache with scoring on wove paper

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This drawing illustrated Les Reliques , a song written in the voice of the skeleton seen in the image.

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